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barrels, and put in some rennet, which would make 

 it curdle into something like cottage cheese. This 

 they would set aside for winter use, and all were 

 very fond of it. The family would be considered 

 very poor who could not put up from eight to ten 

 barrels of this food. 



They sometimes, also, would churn mutton tallow, 

 or whale oil, in the sheep's milk, and make a kind of 

 butter. Whale oil makes a better butter than the 

 tallow, and I think I like would it even yet. 



While most people had dishes and knives and 

 forks, it was not customary to set the table, unless 

 there was company present. Each one had a cup 

 for himself, made of wood with staves like a barrel, 

 and curiously bound with whale-bone hoops. They 

 had handles upon them, but I do not know how fast- 

 ened. A child's cup would hold about a quart, and 

 a man's cup sometimes as much as three quarts. 

 When each one had gotten his cup filled, he would 

 take his place at any convenient spot in the room, 

 on the bed, or anywhere, and proceed to empty the 

 cup with great haste. We all had ravenous appe- 

 tites, but did not always have enough to eat. In 

 the spring we had a great treat, when the eggs and 

 flesh of wild fowl were to be had. We fared well 

 when fish were plenty, but at other times a porridge 

 made of Iceland moss and the curdled milk made up 

 our fare. Some seasons they can raise a few vege- 

 tables in Iceland, but this is not often. Of late years 

 they cannot raise grain, although they used to raise 

 good oats. 



